Southgate Veterans Memorial Library

The 2024 Youth and Adult Summer Reading Programs have concluded! Raffle prizes have been drawn, the winners have been contacted. Kids and teens who have not yet received their prizes and badges can still come in to get them, last day for that will be Thursday, August 29th. Thank you to the hundreds of people who signed up for the programs, and attended our events!

Southgate Library Commission

The next meeting of the Southgate Veterans Memorial Library Commission will be held on Wednesday, September 11th at 4:15 pm. It will be in our front meeting room. Members of the public are welcome to attend.

We are pleased to now offer Southgate residents access to three new digital borrowing resources! A brief explanation of each can be found here; for further details on them, as well as our other digital offerings, check out our eBooks & More page.

Signing up for these platforms does require a current, Southgate specific library card (it should begin with 29014). If your card is out of date, or you have an older one, come on in and we can get you set up! You can also apply for a temporary library card number by using an online form, found on our Card Registration page. This will let you get started with Kanopy, and give you 3 months to stop in and verify your info.

Kanopy is a video streaming service, with over 30,000 videos, including popular movies, short films, seasons of TV shows, and educational series.

When you borrow a video or series from Kanopy, it costs 1 to 5 'tickets', depending on what you borrow. Every month, you will have 15 tickets to use however you like! A movie is typically 2 tickets, and you can watch it as many times as you want for 72 hours, while a season of a TV show or educational series will cost more tickets, but will give you 1, 2, or even 3 weeks to watch it all. Additionally, Kanopy offers a special Kids section, with unlimited access; no tickets required!

Blackstone Unlimited is an audiobook collection, with over 6,000 titles and growing. The best part is that it offers unlimited, simulatenous access. There's no need to place a hold, and never a wait; if you and a dozen of your best friends want to listen to the same audiobook, you all can, immediately!

Comics Plus offers access to thousands of comics, graphic novels, and manga, with collections for kids, teens, and adults. Like Blackstone Unlimited, it offers unlimited, simultaneous access, so you can borrow whatever catches your eye with no wait.

All three of these new services can be accessed via mobile devices. Apps are available on the Google Play and Apple App Store, while Kanopy can additionally be downloaded for use on smart TVs. The app for Comics Plus is called Library Pass.

Contact Info - Phone: 734-258-3002 - Address: 14680 Dix-Toledo Rd. Southgate, MI 48195

Hours - Mon-Thurs: 10am-9PM - Sat: 10am-5pm